Risk Management

Michael Lock of the Aberdeen Group focuses on the effect of end user adoption, pervasiveness, and engagement of business intelligence on business performance. Learn the necessary steps to establishing self-service business analytics.

How does an organization make the best use of data, and what is the proper role of IT? This paper describes how organizations can foster a culture of data analytics that promotes cooperation and collaboration between IT and business.

Learn what criteria distinguished certain companies as top performers within the SMB sector, the factors to consider when assessing your organization's BI competency and the required actions to achieve best-in-class performance.

This white paper reveals the results of a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey of 930 respondents globally on the current state of business analytics within organizations. You'll discover how and why the use of analytics is growing!

This Aberdeen Research Brief draws on three discrete data sets in order to understand the tangible business impact of effective analytics in the SMB market.

Learn about the emerging best practices for mobile BI usage and the framework by which you can assess your own management capabilities for enterprise mobile BI adoption.

The traditional managed reporting approach to BI is challenged to keep up with changing demand for business information. This research finds that providing business users with highly visual/interactive tools can help ensure they get what they need.

This white paper provides a top-level overview explaining what business analytics can do for your company - and the 8 key steps to accelerating product innovation, optimizing pricing and discovering drivers of financial performance.

This white paper discusses why no one likes asset management, what tools are and are not helpful and why you need to tie assets back to contracts.

The aim of this document is to highlight ways in which ScriptLogic solutions can be used to bring Microsoft Windows-based IT systems into line with the requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

Spammers have now fired a new barrage of image spam using randomized images that appear identical to the human eye, yet appear to be entirely unique to most anti-spam software. Many of the changes to the images contained within spam messages are so subtle that they require a pixel-by-pixel examination of the image in order to detect the differences.  Read how Secure Computing effectively addresses this problem.

Computerworld research unveils how enterprises are responding to growing data protection challenges. This report benchmarks how an organization’s data protection decisions impact business efficiency – based on a survey of enterprise IT decision-makers. Sponsored by SEPATON.

This white paper will illustrate how implementing an effective power management strategy, complete with easy-to-deploy technology, will enable an organization to reduce costs, improve security and become a greater steward of the environment.

How can an organization manage both their physical environment and their virtual environment without doubling up on the work, missing critical patches on offline virtual machines, or even missing patches on the virtual machines they are not even aware of?

This webinar will cover the challenges of relying exclusively on either AV or patch and configuration management for threat resistance and why a combined approach is the best option.

This report provides insights into Best-in-Class practices for assessing vulnerabilities and threats to IT infrastructure, prioritizing fixes based on the business value of resources and acceptable levels of risk, and remediating through the efficient deployment of patches, configuration changes, and other compensating controls.

Whalen Furniture needed an improved patch management solution that was more efficient, less time consuming, reduced risk, and ensured uptime on a 24/7 basis to support the needs of a rapidly growing global company.

In this report, we will take a look at the IT-related activities from the ITPro and AnalystPerspectives collections, as well as the most popular IT and business search terms.

Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk.

When it comes to data protection and recovery, many businesses are not as safe as they believe. Read on to find out what you should consider when creating your backup and disaster recovery plan.

Certainly server virtualization offers an elegant way to minimize planned downtime during routine software and hardware maintenance, or scheduled upgrades. But that addresses only part of the availability story.

Application vulnerabilities and risks must be weighed to identify resources, performance requirements and service level objectives to ensure business continuity. Using real-world case studies, this white paper examines Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices for disaster preparedness.

Most organizations today understand that a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to their continued survival should a natural disaster occur. But implementing a DR plan entails substantial time, effort and cost - not to mention significant investment in developing new areas of technical expertise within the organization. As a result, many organizations are turning to disaster recovery service providers (DRSPs) to offload their disaster recovery operations.

Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine database access with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI).

Download this guide to help you take the guesswork out of implementing SSL for Exchange 2010, making it easier than ever to get the SSL certificate you need for a successful and secure Exchange implementation.